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Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Abandon, The Bussey Building, Peckham by Lauren Paxman

The Bussey Building, Peckham: Pure Fluke Theatre aims to "produce provocative comedies that playfully re-imagine classic texts," and its latest effort, Abandon, superimposes the cr…

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Friday, August 16, 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: Histoire D'Amour, King's Theatre, Edinburgh by Lauren Paxman

King's Theatre, Edinburgh: Those heading to Edinburgh International Festival show, Histoire D'Amour, expecting a nice little French love story are in for a surprise. This adaptation of …

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Monday, August 12, 2013

Edinburgh International Festival: Leaving Planet Earth, International Conference Centre/Edinburgh International Climbing Arena by Lauren Paxman

International Conference Centre/Edinburgh International Climbing Arena: <a href="http://www.gridiron.org.uk/">Grid Iron</a> is one of Scotland's boldest and most r…

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Friday, July 19, 2013

Treatment, Drayton Arms Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

Drayton Arms Theatre, London: Juggling the roles of writer, director and lead actor - all in the same production - is never easy. And Raymond-Kym Suttle unfortunately doesn't quite pull…

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Friday, June 7, 2013

Happy New, Trafalgar Studios, London by Lauren Paxman

Trafalgar Studios, London: Australian playwright Brendan Cowell's Happy New enjoyed a sell-out run at London's Old Red Lion last year which was extended to an unprecedented eight w…

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Monday, June 3, 2013

Mary Queen Of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, King's Head Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

King's Head Theatre, London: Liz Lochhead's most successful, acclaimed and wordily-titled play had only been performed in London once before this week - it toured through the capital mo…

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Friday, May 3, 2013

The Ghost Hunter, The Old Red Lion Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

The Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Telling ghost stories might sound to many children like something that happened before The X Factor was invented. But Theatre of the Damned are doing its da…

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Friday, April 19, 2013

Nineveh, Riverside Studios, London by Lauren Paxman

Riverside Studios, London: "Lights up (fade) � three soldiers from three countries are sitting in the belly of a whale." So begins Nineveh, Theatre Temoin's allegorical and …

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Friday, April 5, 2013

Nina Kristofferson's Billie Holiday Story, Charing Cross, London by Lauren Paxman

Charing Cross, London: Billie Holiday's iconic voice dripped with life experience, and with good reason. The jazz and blues star's 44 short years were littered with rape, child pro…

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Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Above and Beyond, Corinthia Hotel, London by Lauren Paxman

Corinthia Hotel, London: If you like You Me Bum Bum Train you'll love Above and Beyond. The one-on-one show takes you on a secretive solo journey around parts of the uber-swanky five-st…

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Wednesday, March 13, 2013

A Thousand Miles of History, The Bussey Building, London by Lauren Paxman

The Bussey Building, London: Edinburgh Fringe award-winning comic Adam Riches sold out a five-week run at Soho Theatre last year. So it must make a change to be performing to crowds of about…

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Friday, February 8, 2013

Hamlet, The Rose, Bankside, London by Lauren Paxman

The Rose, Bankside, London: A 90-minute Hamlet which manages to keep in all of the best bits might sound totally unrealistic to some Shakespeare fans. But few of them will be disappointed by…

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Friday, February 1, 2013

Lean, Tristan Bates Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

Tristan Bates Theatre, London: Anorexia is notoriously tricky to treat. But in Isley Lynn's new high tension drama, Tessa (Laura Hanna) thinks she has found a speedy solution. She won&#…

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Friday, January 18, 2013

Good Morning, Alamo!, Tabard Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

Tabard Theatre, London: The 1836 Battle of the Alamo was the USA's version of Dunkirk. But if you are after a history lesson, you'd do better to hit up Wikipedia than Mark Giesser&…

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Wednesday, December 19, 2012

Slava's Snowshow, Royal Festival Hall by Lauren Paxman

Royal Festival Hall: It is possible to have a white Christmas this year afterall - inside the Royal Festival Hall. And the millions of pieces of paper which fall from the sky in Slava's…

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Friday, December 14, 2012

Tom's Midnight Garden, Bloomsbury Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

Bloomsbury Theatre, London: Philippa Pearse's 1958 children's fantasy novel was an instant classic. And in the Birmingham Stage Company's capable hands the story stands the te…

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Thursday, December 6, 2012

A Christmas Carol, Arts, London by Lauren Paxman

Arts, London: For many families, reading A Christmas Carol is as much of a December tradition as decorating the Christmas tree. But however good your dad happens to be at putting on a Tiny T…

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Friday, October 26, 2012

Dangerous Lady, Theatre Royal Stratford East by Lauren Paxman

Theatre Royal Stratford East: Martina Cole's uber-popular crime novels have spent more time at the top of the original fiction chart than the works of Dan Brown, John Grisham and Lee Ch…

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Thursday, October 11, 2012

Damned by Despair, National, London by Lauren Paxman

National, London: Damned By Despair, Tirso de Molina's Spanish Golden Age drama about religion and forgiveness was always going to struggle to get National Theatre audiences excited. Ev…

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Monday, October 8, 2012

Call Me Madam, Union Theatre, London by Lauren Paxman

Union Theatre, London: With three new, big-budget jukebox musicals opening in the West End this autumn, it is really refreshing to watch an old school musical being performed just how Irving…

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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Insufficiency, Riverside Studios, London by Lauren Paxman

Riverside Studios, London: Chemistry and dramatic theatre are not an obvious combination. Sure, we talk of chemistry on stage, but that doesn't generally mean overflowing beakers of bub…

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Friday, August 24, 2012

Les Naufrages du Fol Espoir (Aurores), Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh by Lauren Paxman

Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston, Edinburgh: Theatre du Soleil had to wait nearly five decades for the Edinburgh International Festival to find a space huge enough to stage one…

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Monday, July 23, 2012

1936, Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London by Lauren Paxman

Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells, London: It may be fashionable to have a good moan about the Olympics, but Tom McNab's new drama puts our G4S and 'Zil lanes' fiascos firm…

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Monday, July 9, 2012

The Trojan Horse, Agamemnon, Orestes, The Scoop at More London by Lauren Paxman

The Scoop at More London: The Scoop celebrates 10 years of free, open-air theatre this summer and the quality of 2012's Oresteia trilogy shows just why audiences keep on turning up - ev…

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Thursday, March 8, 2012

Toxic Bankers, Leicester Square Theatre by Lauren Paxman

Leicester Square Theatre: After transporting Kafka's The Trial to a country full of suicide bombers in Failed States, you would have thought writing a musical about the financial crisis…

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Jun 26, 2023: Just For Us - Hudson Theatre
Jul 24, 2023: The Cottage - Hayes Theater
Nov 16, 2023: Spamalot - St. James Theatre
Dec 18, 2023: Appropriate - Hayes Theater
Mar 07, 2024: Doubt - Todd Haimes Theatre
Apr 14, 2024: Lempicka - Longacre Theatre
Apr 17, 2024: The Wiz - Marquis Theatre
Apr 18, 2024: Suffs - Music Box Theatre
Apr 25, 2024: Mother Play - Hayes Theater
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